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ismnotwasm

(41,980 posts)
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 09:06 AM Oct 2013

So someone explain to me

Why do certain people continue to espouse outdated and simplistic anthropological theories of human development? Usually I'll trash a thread the minute I see that shit, because you'd have to teach a class to get their head out of their ass, not that that would work, but "alpha male"? People really believe that Edgar Rice Burroughs bullshit?

I could link to a number of essays and studies but I'm going to work.

I just find it completely strange.

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So someone explain to me (Original Post) ismnotwasm Oct 2013 OP
it allows them dominance and today there is not way they can get it besides storytelling. seabeyond Oct 2013 #1
Yep, nailed it. redqueen Oct 2013 #3
Which thread are you referring to? BainsBane Oct 2013 #2
All I gotta say is... MadrasT Oct 2013 #4
Edgar Rice Burroughs? You're being too kind. John Norman ('Chronicles of Gor') is more like it. nomorenomore08 Oct 2013 #5
LOL ismnotwasm Oct 2013 #6
Chronicles of Misogyny is more like it redqueen Oct 2013 #7
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
1. it allows them dominance and today there is not way they can get it besides storytelling.
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 09:10 AM
Oct 2013

there just is not that much difference in us as humans. men cannot argue it, but they are fighting that reality hard. more than anything they need to have a definite, clear, blunt line of a difference between the sexes that are not there.

look at their definition of masculinity. strength, character. what? is that like a male thing? not really and very instulting to a woman suggesting it is a "man" thing. yet repeatedly the adjectives that define their masculinity are adjectives that are gender neutral.

redqueen

(115,103 posts)
3. Yep, nailed it.
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 10:40 AM
Oct 2013

It also allows those who subscribe to evo psych / PUA bullshit to rationalize their failure to attract a 'high value woman'... 99% of the time the people babbling about such crap are obsessed with rationalizing why they can't get hotter dates

MadrasT

(7,237 posts)
4. All I gotta say is...
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 11:42 AM
Oct 2013

...the men I know who are most attached to this evo-psych babble as a mechanism for "understanding" women and the "difference between the sexes"...



(ahem, sorry, that always makes me giggle)

...with the intent of "decoding" women so they can hook up with their perfect partner...




...are also the men who can't seem to find partners.

Coincidence?

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